Sleep is good! I absolutely love to sleep. Nearly every person I know loves to sleep, too. On most days, my first thoughts upon waking up in the morning involves a quick set of calculations to determine just how quickly I can return to bed to resume sleeping again.
While these numbers have declined in recent years, the costs associated with these crashes are still likely to be measured in billions of dollars in damages each year.
These statistics are startling, but they only tell part of the story.
Impaired reaction time, judgment and vision.
Problems with information processing, short- and long-term memory and logical reasoning.
Decreased cognitive performance, vigilance and motivation.
Increased moodiness, aggressive behaviors and risk-taking.
What does this mean for the professional bus operator?
An operator's ability to identify hazards, assess the associated risk and respond in the safest possible manner at the appropriate time is critical to safe bus operation. Therefore, the slower reaction time, increased difficulties in logical reasoning, and greater susceptibility to ignore or accept risk that results when we are sleepy may combine to make a challenging job even more so.
Vigilance represents an important executive function that impacts our ability to sustain focus and concentration on specific tasks that must be performed frequently throughout the day, such as scanning, checking mirrorsand forward planning. In general, tired operators are more likely to drift from their lanes, tailgate, miss traffic signals, brake hard/stop abruptly, or become more easily distracted.
In extreme cases, the body's intense physiological need for sleep can make it nearly impossible to keep your head up, your eyes open, and your thoughts from wandering 4. If you notice an increased tendency to daydream, it could be an indication that you aren't getting sufficient rest.
If that isn't enough, a poor night's rest makes us cranky and can affect our mood in ways that may leave us more susceptible for potential conflicts with passengers.
Simply put, our brains need adequate sleep each night to function properly.
As we sleep, hormones are released that make proteins and other raw materials available for repair of our damaged neurons and to maintain healthy brain tissue. This maintenance is required to keep our brains working at optimal levels. Each night our brains use the sleep cycle to consolidate the day's learnings into functional knowledge that helps us perform well at our jobs and tend to our daily responsibilities. As a result, we stand to gain the most benefit from our on-the-job experiences when we get sufficient rest.
Despite all the pro's and con's, estimates suggest that over 70% of adults fail to get sufficient sleep.
So, this begs the question: If we all love to sleep and are willing to accept that sleep is important, why aren't we getting enough?
For one thing, we don't treat sleep as a daily priority. When we get busy or "stressed out" by our work, family or personal obligations — one of the first things we are willing to sacrifice is our sleep. How many of us have "borrowed" the time we should spend on sleeping in an effort to extend our day, so we can get more done? On the surface, this makes practical sense, especially to our fatigued brains. Yet over time, what starts innocently enough as a short-term coping mechanism soon becomes a consistent behavior that quickly turns into a daily habit. When this happens, we end up with a new problem called "sleep debt." Eventually, as with any debt, those that seek to collect eventually arrive to settle the account. When the sleep debt collectors (SDC) arrive — they are ruthless. The SDC calls upon a potent combination of hormones and chemicals that can force the body to rest, regardless of what tasks need to be done or what functions the brain is already engaged in doing — this includes driving a bus.
A further complication is that despite all we have learned through research, there is no exact formula for calculating the amount of sleep we need to function at our best. Instead, we have guidelines suggesting that we monitor our energy levels and abilities to concentrate throughout the day as a means of gauging whether we slept enough the previous night. We may consider that we are getting enough sleep if we can perform our daily duties without feeling the need for coffee, naps or other energy supplements. Most data suggests that adults between the ages of 26 to 64 years of age should sleep somewhere between seven and nine hours each night. Some need more, some can function effectively with less.
We also have to consider the quality of sleep that we are getting as well as the quantity. This is why the actual sleep requirements tend to vary from person to person. There are any number of things that can impact the quality of our sleep and they have to do with our daily routine, our environment, our current situation, etc.
In general, there are specific things you can do to improve the quality of your sleep 5.
Maintain a regular sleep-wake schedule (aka consistent end of day/bedtime).
Avoid caffeine, alcohol, nicotine and other chemicals that interfere with sleep.
Make your bedroom a comfortable sleep environment (cool, dark, quiet).
Establish a calming pre-sleep routine (i.e. hot bath, meditation, soft music, white noise).
Go to bed when you're truly tired.
Refrain from watching the clock at night (may elevate stress if you are having difficulty nodding off).
Shut down your screens (TV's, tablets, smart phones, computers a few hours before bedtime).
Do not take a nap too close to your regular bedtime (short naps during the day are OK).
Eat and drink enough to avoid getting hungry or thirsty — but not too much or too soon before bedtime.
Exercise regularly — but not too soon before bedtime.
These are only suggestions to promote what sleep doctors refer to as "sleep hygiene." You may not have to do all of these things each and every night to improve the quality of your sleep, so try adopting some of these recommendations for a period of time and use what works best for you.
Stress is a common sleep inhibitor as many people end each day with a restless mind — racing with worry and concern for all of life's problems that must be dealt with in the morning. Behavior experts suggest one way to combat this "worry" loop is to end each day with a mental focus on all of the good things that happened during the day. An act of kindness that you extended to someone, a compliment you may have received from a passenger, recognition from a colleague or supervisor regarding your job performance, or anything that makes you feel good about yourself will reduce your stress and help you to relax.
Despite all of the things you can control to improve both the quality and quantity of sleep, you still might not be getting the amount of rest you need to function at your best.
A word of caution: Despite their popularity, sleeping aids (and related remedies) are not recommended. Sleep aids won't offer the help you need if you suffer from an undiagnosed sleeping disorder. You will be much better off seeking medical attention, if you experience persistent difficulties sleeping.
My wife has struggled with chronic fatigue for years, so she has tried everything. Several months ago, she developed the personal discipline to practice good sleep hygiene consistently day-after-day, including most weekends. Unfortunately, despite strict devotion to her new routine, she continued to have struggles sleeping through the night — waking up each day feeling exhausted and more desperate for help. This ultimately led to a doctor's visit and a trip to a sleeping disorders clinic for a sleep study where she was expertly diagnosed with sleep apnea.
Obstructive sleep apnea is often treated with a device that provides continuous positive airway pressure commonly known as a C-PAP device. Many insurance companies now include treatment of positive airway pressure in their coverage plans 6.
In addition to sleep apnea, there are a host of common sleep disorders — such as insomnia, bruxism, restless leg syndrome and narcolepsy to name a few — that require diagnosis and treatment by a qualified physician.
We must also be aware that certain medications7 and food sensitivities 8 can also impact our sleep and energy levels.
1) Where there is time and space, take a short nap. Dr. John Medina describes how our brains have a natural tendency towards lethargy each afternoon and how a short nap can help improve focus and reaction times for the remainder of the day(9). Past U.S. Presidents, Thomas Edison and Albert Einstein maintained their nimble minds by napping.
2) Give yourself a "time out." A "time out" serves a similar role for promoting healthy responses in adults as it does in rearing well-behaved children — it provides a break from emotional stress. An effective "time out" for adults involves setting aside 10 to 15 minutes each day so we can go someplace for calm and quiet. This requires us to completely unplug from our beloved hand-held devices, close our eyes and maintain focus on our breathing — in and out, in and out. These moments of calm give our brains a chance to reset akin to rebooting a computer. The modern world generates a lot of noise that our brains are forced to process on a near-constant basis. Silence, therefore, is indeed golden.
3) Exercise. Exercise helps us in a variety of ways by boosting our metabolism, improving our brain function, and increasing our energy levels. Regular exercise promotes vascular health and improves the quality of our sleep. Whole books have been written on the benefits of exercise on brain function.
Fortunately, most transit properties now offer comfortable break rooms and well-equipped exercise facilities that employees can use to promote good health and well-being.
Utilizing break rooms and/or other company resources.
I suppose this blog offers tremendous potential for putting you to sleep based on length alone. In that case, sleep well my friends.


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Canadians Might Start Paying To Drive NYS Cashless Tolls Soon
The cashless tolls have been in-place on the Grand Island Bridge for some time now and if you're a Canadian driver, there currently is no way to charge you to drive along there.
However, according to WGRZ, Lieutenant Governor of New York Kathy Hochul says that an agreement to charge Canadian drivers to cross cashless tolls here in New York State will be coming very soon.
"There absolutely is," said Kathy Hochul, when asked if there might be a breakthrough in what has amounted to roughly year and a half long standoff between authorities in New York state and those in Ontario and Quebec Canada.
"I look forward to the day very soon when I can tell you that this has been resolved and it's an important issue for people to know there is fairness," Hochul said.
A spokesperson with the Ontario Transportation Ministry says no agreement has been reached yet, however.
"But the Thruway Authority has been working diligently on this and I'm going to say that there will be an answer very shortly," said Hochul.
If an agreement is reached, that means that Canadian drivers would also be charged to drive the 90 interstate, which will be entirely cashless tolls by the end of 2020.
Read the full story at WGRZ.
Source: Canadians Might Start Paying To Drive NYS Cashless Tolls Soon
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Mintr and Synthetix.Exchange have now been updated to support the new Trezor firmware update, 1.8.0. Thank you to everyone who has provided feedback on our dApps over the last few days. Firmware updates are out of our control, but we will always attempt to respond quickly to ensure our dApps are compatible with the latest hardware.
Just in case people update their hardware wallets before we get a chance to update our dApps, we thought this was a good opportunity to let people know that there are alternative ways to interact with our smart contracts on Ethereum, and thus, perform any action our dApps enable. The two easiest ways to use smart contracts without touching a dApp are MyEtherWallet and EtherScan.
Here's an example of how to stake your SNX to issue the maximum number of Synths and be eligible for SNX staking rewards.
4. This will start a transaction confirmation with your wallet provider (Trezor / Ledger / other).
You should now have the sUSD issued into your wallet, available to be traded on https://synthetix.exchange for other Synths such as sBTC and sEUR.


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A Muscisaxicola flavinucha a madarak (Aves) osztályának verébalakúak (Passeriformes)  rendjébe és a királygébicsfélék (Tyrannidae) családjába tartozó faj.

Rendszerezése
A fajt Frédéric de Lafresnaye francia ornitológus írta le 1855-ben.

Alfajai
Muscisaxicola flavinucha brevirostris Olrog, 1949
Muscisaxicola flavinucha flavinucha Lafresnaye, 1855

Előfordulása
Dél-Amerikában, az Andokban, Argentína, Bolívia, Chile és Peru területén honos. Természetes élőhelyei a mérsékelt övi gyepek, szubtrópusi és trópusi magaslati gyepek, lápok és mocsarak környékén, sziklás környezetben. Vonuló faj.

Megjelenése
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Képek az interneten a nembe tartozó fajokról

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Prince Edward in conflict with his brother King Charles III before the coronation?
King Charles and Prince William receive heartbreaking news
King Charles and his sons Prince William and Prince Harry's close friend Kuldip Singh Dhillon have died aged 72.
According to a report by Express United KingdomKuldip Singh Dhillon died while traveling in India earlier this week.
According to the report, Dhillon was chairman of the Cirencester Park Polo Club which was formed in 1894.
Dhillon had also been friends with Queen Consort Camilla since the early 1970s.
According to shimmer, Prince William and Harry were particularly close to Dhillon's son Satman, a professional polo player and businessman.
Indian-born Kuldip Singh was in India to attend a family wedding.
King Charles, Prince William and Harry have yet to officially react to Kuldip's death.
Actor Jason Momoa reveals details of Aquaman and the Lost Kingdom
Tekken 8 will officially support the Arabic language
'Pathan' continues to earn…
Lisa Marie Presley's friend claims Priscilla is trying…


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La lucha por la verdad es la novena novela de la serie Aprendiz de Jedi, basada en el universo de Star Wars, y está escrita por Jude Watson. Fue publicada por Scholastic Press en inglés (agosto de 2000) y por Alberto Santos Editor en español.

Argumento
Qui-Gon Jinn y Adi Gallia son enviados con sus Padawans a buscar una bebé sensible a la Fuerza en el planeta Kegan. Pero la gente de Kegan no quiere extraños en su mundo y pronto deben buscar al bebé, que ha desaparecido.   Ellos tienen planes a futuro con el bebé.

Enlaces externos
Índice cronológico de libros de Star Wars

Aprendiz de Jedi


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Riot's team up with Marvel is the first step to turning the League IP into something massive
What else is on the horizon for Marvel and Riot?
There have been a few noteworthy headlines floating around the gaming community lately, such as canvas bags in Fallout: 76 and the baked beans economy in Red Dead Redemption 2's online mode. One that's a little more optimistic, especially if you're a fan of comics and League of Legends, is Riot Games' partnership with entertainment giant Marvel. Yes, that Marvel.
If you haven't seen our coverage of the upcoming comic series Ashe: Warmother, it's coming this month, and it'll tell the origin story of one of League's first champions.
While this is a momentous leap forward into storytelling and lore in general, it also signifies the start of something far greater. With this partnership, Riot is taking its baby steps into turning the League IP into a much more diverse and in-depth one.
There's the first series with Ashe, sure, but Riot has also shed a light on its plans with Marvel afterward, too. The goal, at least for now, is to get to the point where the two companies can release multiple League comic series each month.
Riot has the game and its interactive map to set the stage of Runeterra, as well as the various cinematics and stories its lore team has shared over the years. And with this robust portfolio of comic series to follow, all of those locations, characters, and more that have been spelled out already will be given depth like League's fans have never seen.
It's that kind of depth in storytelling that allows fans to theorycraft about stories, create their own works of fiction, and dive in on a level that only fans of the largest IPs out there have been able to do. Game of Thrones, Star Wars, and, of course, Marvel—to us, that's what Riot is aiming for with this series.
If that's true, it could mean several things. First, it would be an extremely long-term plan with the comics only serving as that very first step. And after that, we would expect even more mediums of entertainment being filled with the characters and regions of Runeterra, including books, movies, a show, or anything similar.
Obviously, this is purely speculation, but those are the sort of possibilities that a partnership like this opens up, and it's important to highlight them. Ashe: Warmother comes out on Dec. 19.
Riot polish up Lee Sin League buffs and add more scaling options to his kit
More changes are on the way.
SK star Markoon explains why League's Season 13 Jungle changes are good for the game
The SK jungler said some light on the changes.
5 League champions could finally return to the meta with Patch 13.3 buffs
These changes could be exactly what they need.
LCK pros have the solution to League's stale ADC support meta
It's more than one problem.
Activision ignores Warzone 2 players' wishes by including AI enemies on new Resurgence map Ashika Island
Overwatch 2's next customizable Mythic skin, Amaterasu Kiriko, is coming in season 3
ALGS Split One Playoffs plagued by visa issues and some favorite teams are at risk of missing the tournament
This absurd Ramattra glitch is every Overwatch 2 player's worst nightmare
VALORANT players are fed up with the Episode 6 ranked reset
Overwatch 2 players think these 2 tanks are in line to be the next most-hated in the game
A new Warzone 2 hack can crash the game's server with the click of a button
All 2023 ALGS Split One Playoff teams, ranked


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I want create from client (Win xp SP2) connection to VPN server on internet.
But connection on client failed with error 733(Authentification ok, but registering fail).
Vpn on client working well, i tested in other infrastructure.
Next piece of knowledge is , that this vpn is not working on LAN (asus).
Anybody solve this problem ?


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package workbench.gui.help;

import java.awt.Desktop;
import java.awt.Desktop.Action;
import java.io.File;
import java.net.URI;

import workbench.WbManager;
import workbench.log.LogMgr;
import workbench.resource.ResourceMgr;
import workbench.resource.Settings;

import workbench.gui.WbSwingUtilities;

import workbench.util.BrowserLauncher;
import workbench.util.ExceptionUtil;
import workbench.util.WbFile;
import workbench.util.WbThread;

/**
 * A class to display the HTML and PDF manual from within the application.
 *
 * @author Thomas Kellerer
 */
public class HelpManager
{

	public static WbFile getDefaultPdf()
	{
		String pdfManual = Settings.getInstance().getProperty("workbench.manual.pdf.file", "SQLWorkbench-Manual.pdf");

		WbFile f = new WbFile(pdfManual);
		if (f.isDirectory())
		{
			f = new WbFile(f, "SQLWorkbench-Manual.pdf");
		}

		if (f.exists())
		{
			return f;
		}

		String jarDir = WbManager.getInstance().getJarPath();
		WbFile pdf = new WbFile(jarDir, pdfManual);

		return pdf;
	}

	public static WbFile getPDFManualPath()
	{
		WbFile pdf = getDefaultPdf();

		if (pdf.exists() && pdf.canRead())
		{
			return pdf;
		}

		if (!pdf.exists())
		{
			pdf = new WbFile(Settings.getInstance().getConfigDir(), pdf.getFileName());
		}

		if (pdf.exists() && pdf.canRead())
		{
			return pdf;
		}
		else
		{
			return null;
		}
	}

	/**
	 * Returns the directory where the HTML manual is located.
	 *
	 * @return the directory where the HTML manual is located or null if it cannot be found
	 */
	public static File getHtmlManualDir()
	{
		// Allow overriding the default location of the HTML manual
		String dir = Settings.getInstance().getProperty("workbench.manual.html.dir", null);
		File htmldir = null;

		if (dir == null)
		{
			// First look in the directory of the jar file.
			File jardir = WbManager.getInstance().getJarFile().getParentFile();
			htmldir = new File(jardir, "manual");
		}
		else
		{
			htmldir = new File(dir);
		}

		if (!htmldir.exists())
		{
			htmldir = new File(Settings.getInstance().getConfigDir(), "manual");
		}

		if (htmldir.exists())
		{
			return htmldir;
		}
		else
		{
			LogMgr.logWarning("HelpManager.getHtmlManualDir()", "Help directory '" + htmldir.getAbsolutePath() + "' not found!");
		}

		return null;
	}

	public static void showPdfHelp()
	{
		final WbFile pdf = getPDFManualPath();
		if (pdf == null)
		{
			String defaultPdf = getDefaultPdf().getFullPath();
			String msg = ResourceMgr.getFormattedString("ErrManualNotFound", defaultPdf, WbManager.getInstance().getJarPath());
			WbSwingUtilities.showMessage(WbManager.getInstance().getCurrentWindow(), msg);
			return;
		}

		LogMgr.logDebug("HelpManager.showPdfHelp()", "Using PDF: " + pdf.getFullPath());

		if (Desktop.isDesktopSupported() && Desktop.getDesktop().isSupported(Action.OPEN))
		{
			WbThread t = new WbThread("OpenPDF")
			{
				@Override
				public void run()
				{
					try
					{
						Desktop.getDesktop().open(pdf);
					}
					catch (Exception ex)
					{
						LogMgr.logError("HelpManager.showPdf()", "Error when running PDF Viewer", ex);
						WbSwingUtilities.showErrorMessage(ExceptionUtil.getDisplay(ex));
					}
				}
			};
			t.start();
		}
		else
		{
			LogMgr.logError("HelpManager.showPdfHelp()", "Desktop not supported!", null);
			WbSwingUtilities.showErrorMessage("Desktop not supported by your Java version");
		}
	}

	public static void showHistory()
	{
		File pdf = getDefaultPdf();

		WbFile history = new WbFile(pdf.getParent(), "history.html");
		if (!history.exists())
		{
			String msg = ResourceMgr.getFormattedString("ErrHelpFileNotFound", "history.html", pdf.getParent());
			WbSwingUtilities.showErrorMessage(WbManager.getInstance().getCurrentWindow(), msg);
			return;
		}
		try
		{
			BrowserLauncher.openURL(history.toURI());
		}
		catch (Exception ex)
		{
			LogMgr.logError("ShowHelpAction.executeAction", "Error displaying manual", ex);
		}
	}

	public static void showHelpFile(String topic)
	{
		showHelpFile(topic, null);
	}

	public static void showHelpFile(String topic, String anchor)
	{
		String basefile;

		if (Settings.getInstance().useSinglePageHelp())
		{
			basefile = "workbench-manual-single.html";
		}
		else if (topic != null)
		{
			basefile = topic + ".html";
		}
		else
		{
			basefile = "workbench-manual.html";
		}

		File dir = getHtmlManualDir();
		if (dir == null)
		{
			showOnlineHelp(basefile, anchor);
			return;
		}

		File manual = null;
		if (dir != null)
		{
			manual = new File(dir, basefile);
		}

		if (manual == null || !manual.exists())
		{
			LogMgr.logInfo("HelpManager.showHelpFile()", "Help file: '" + manual + "' not found. Showing online help");
			showOnlineHelp(basefile, anchor);
			return;
		}

		try
		{
			String url = manual.toURI().toURL().toString();
			if (Settings.getInstance().useSinglePageHelp() && topic != null)
			{
				url = url + "#" + topic;
			}
			else if (anchor != null)
			{
				url += "#" + anchor;
			}
			BrowserLauncher.openURL(new URI(url));
		}
		catch (Exception ex)
		{
			LogMgr.logError("ShowHelpAction.executeAction", "Error displaying manual", ex);
		}
	}

	private static void showOnlineHelp(String basefile, String anchor)
	{
		try
		{
			String page = (basefile == null ? "" : basefile);
			if (anchor != null)
			{
				page += "#" + anchor;
			}
			String baseUrl = "http://www.sql-workbench.net/";
			if (WbManager.getInstance().isDevBuild())
			{
				baseUrl += "dev";
			}
			baseUrl += "manual/";
			BrowserLauncher.openURL(baseUrl + page);
		}
		catch (Exception ex)
		{
			LogMgr.logError("HelpManager.showHelpFile", "Could not open online help", ex);
		}
	}

	public static void showHelpIndex()
	{
		showHelpFile("workbench-manual");
	}

	public static void showDataPumperHelp()
	{
		showHelpFile("data-pumper");
	}

	public static void showOptionsHelp()
	{
		showHelpFile("options");
	}

	public static void showProfileHelp()
	{
		showHelpFile("profiles");
	}

	public static void showDriverHelp()
	{
		showHelpFile("jdbc-setup");
	}

	public static void showDateFormatHelp()
	{
		showHelpFile("options", "options-data-formatting");
	}

}

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By Ralph Waldo Emerson
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An essential collection of the most noteworthy essays and poems of Ralph Waldo Emerson, a leading architect of the Transcendentalist movement, which championed self-reliance, individualism, and personal potential.
THIS ENRICHED CLASSIC EDITION INCLUDES:
• A concise introduction that gives the reader important background information
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• A timeline of significant events that provides the book's historical context
• An outline of key themes to guide the reader's own interpretations
• Detailed explanatory notes
• Critical analysis and modern perspectives on the work
• Discussion questions to promote lively classroom and book group interaction
• A list of recommended related books and films to broaden the reader's experience
Simon & Schuster Enriched Classics offer readers affordable editions of great works of literature enhanced by helpful notes and insightful commentary. The scholarship provided in Enriched Classics enables readers to appreciate, understand, and enjoy the world's finest books to their full potential.
Ralph Waldo Emerson was the leading proponent of the Transcendentalist movement of the mid-nineteenth century. He was ordained as a Unitarian minister at Harvard Divinity School but served for only three years before developing his own spiritual philosophy based on individualism and intuition. His essay Nature is arguably his best-known work and was both groundbreaking and highly controversial when it was first published. Emerson also wrote poetry and lectured widely across the US.
Publisher: Simon & Schuster (May 2016)
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When you are pregnant, I don't think anyone ever expects there to be a problem: you get the elusive positive pregnancy test and immediately you visualise sleepy newborns, beautiful nurseries and if you're anything like me, you've already mentally test-driven several prams. No one expects, or wants to think about, an alternative scenario. Not least, when you're expecting baby number 3.
When I fell pregnant with Imogen, it was summer time, we were incredibly excited to complete our family with a third child. But having been and done it all before, we kept it secret from our families for a little longer this time, our own little secret only me and my husband knew about. It was perfect. What's more, I wasn't struck down with severe morning sickness like I had been in my previous pregnancies. At my scans we had a bit of a wobble when we found out the placenta was low down and covering the scar from my past c-sections, but an extra scan confirmed it had finally moved up and we were good to go for a routine, third caesarean section. I was nervous, more so than before, I knew the risks increased with each surgery you have and I had two young children already at home to think about, but I tried my best to push the negative thoughts to the back of my mind and we delivered Imogen on the 24th March 2017.
The c-section was perfect, very little discomfort, excellent staff, a really lovely atmosphere in theatre and our obs were all great during our time in recovery. 12 hours later I was mobilised and we were looking good for discharge home the following day. My husband left to go home for the night and that's when my world fell apart. Imogen, for some unknown reason, began struggling with her breathing. She was beating her arms up and down in her cot, struggling for breath. At first I rolled my eyes thinking how typical she was waking up just as Daddy had left, and then I looked in and saw her eyes rolled back and I knew we were in trouble. Despite being only 12 hours post op, I picked her up and I ran/waddled into the corridor, to be greeted by a nursery nurse who calmly took my baby off me and told me to go and sit down on my bed. I can't even describe to you how harrowing that time was, it's incredibly difficult to write down in words the thoughts that ran through my head in those moments. Many, many scenarios ran through my head, and none of them had a third, healthy baby in them. I shook with worry at how I was going to tell my two very excited children they weren't going to get their baby sister they'd waited so long for. I struggled with the thought of having to go through another pregnancy to give us a third child, and then sobbed because I didn't want another baby, I wanted Imogen, my daughter. I rang my husband and sobbed down the phone and told him he had to come back and that Imogen had been taken. Bless him, I don't think I made much sense but he turned the car around and came right back. In the mean time, the nurse came back to find me and said the doctors wanted me to be there. For anyone who's been in a similar situation, you'll know how hard it is when you ask if your child is ok and no-one can give you a straight answer, "the doctors would just like you to be there," she repeated again. Well, I'm no idiot, this didn't sound good. We walked down the ward and found two doctors working on Imogen, an oxygen mask over her tiny little face. It turns out she'd gone a very grey colour and they had struggled for quite a long time to get her breathing. When I got there, she was breathing but her stats were taking a long time to recover. It was then that my husband came in and oh how I wept. Anyway, they got her stable and we were transferred to the neonatal unit for premature and sick babies.
Neonatal is a scary place when you are unprepared for it. Heck, it's a scary place even if you know in advance your baby will be spending time there. It's likely that your baby will be hooked up to all sorts of wires and drips and monitors that beep almost constantly. It took quite a while to be able to drift off to sleep without hearing those beeps, they really do haunt you! Imogen was moved to the intensive care room after she had another episode where she stopped breathing and she underwent many, many tests to try and find the cause. Many different possible causes were discussed and eventually ruled out. I remember almost wishing there to be something physical wrong, like a blockage, that they could fix with surgery and then I'd have known she was fixed and wasn't going to suddenly stop breathing again. Nothing physical was found, the surgical team were happy, she had brain scans, x-rays, heart scans, you name it, she had it done. In the end, after many days, the consultant concluded that she just needed more time to adjust to being in the outside world, so we just had to wait it out and hope she didn't do it again. She did. But this time she didn't need medical intervention to sort herself out, which was progress.
The neonatal ward at our local hospital has 4 different rooms, numbered 1-4. 4 is intensive care, no one wants their baby to spend time there, but we did and we came out. We were moved to 2 and it seemed like such progress. You get overjoyed when they tell you you're moving up! Eventually after a week, we spent 1 night in room 1 and then she was discharged home with nothing more than a prescription for gaviscon for her reflux! Time almost stands still in neonatal. It feels like an uphill battle to get your baby well. For every step forward, there are often two steps back. It's a long hard slog and it's incredibly daunting. The worry is immense and yet the sense of community is incredible. The chats you have with other parents in the feeding room, all in the same boat, all trying to express milk to feed their sick babies. When you have a set back and you can't see yourself ever leaving neonatal, the other parents and the nurses are there for you, to mop up the tears and offer you a hug. And they rejoice with you when you get a positive result from a test or a day where things are looking up, a piece of good news. I want to remember neonatal for the people. I take my hat off to the parents who were there for months and I am in awe of the neonatal nurses and doctors who work incredibly long shifts and take the utmost care of your most precious of bundles.
I am very much aware that we are incredibly lucky. The outcome could have been very, very much worse. We felt slightly infamous at the hospital and several midwives came to visit us in neonatal as they couldn't believe what had happened: a full term baby with perfect stats needing to be resuscitated 12 hours after birth on the post natal ward (something I don't think happens very often). Us being one of the lucky ones was almost my downfall in the coming months; I didn't feel worthy of calling myself a NICU mum, our stay was such a short one, we bought home a healthy baby. I struggled with flashbacks to the night she was born, I just couldn't shake them off. It would be in the moments when I was alone, when I was in the shower, when I was falling asleep at night. I found ways to deal with them, mostly blocking it out, but when we went away in the summer I felt so anxious. I was away from my familiar surroundings and it unnerved me. I wanted to wrap all the children up in cotton wool because my mind turned every situation into a worst case scenario. I found lots of blogs online talking about mums suffering with PTSD after a neonatal stay and I finally accepted what had happened was hard. It was completely reasonable to be having these thoughts and feelings, we'd come so close to loosing a child, and just because we didn't, didn't mean what we'd been through was any less harrowing.
Our Imogen is now nearly 10months old and is just perfect in every way, she completes our family and brings us so much joy. I no longer get flashbacks and I've accepted that it really was a difficult time, and that's ok. I think her birthday may be hard, but I will keep myself busy, especially at 9:30 at night!


Joining us today is Gary Ryman, author of Fire Men: Stories from Three Generations of a Firefighting Family .
Thanks for letting me visit, Cheryl!
Great to have you, Gary. I requested a Kindle version of this to review at a later time. I'm eager to read it.
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Jo Haylen, Member for Summer Hill, has condemned further plans to undermine TAFE as hundreds more TAFE teachers likely face the sack at the hands of the Berejiklian Liberal Government.
Treasury documents show that more than $53 million in TAFE redundancy and restructuring costs are expected this year.
Since the Government began its assault on TAFE, 5,700 teachers and support staff have been sacked, courses cut and fee hiked by around a quarter, resulting in 175,000 fewer enrolments.
TAFE campuses have been closed, including Petersham West Street campus and replaced by a new format, effectively a shopfront to replace bricks and mortar institutes.
$145 million was wasted on a new dud computer system that lost student fees and citations.
Opposition leader Luke Foley's first stop on his week-long trip Schools and Hospitals Before Stadiums Tour was at a rally to save Padstow TAFE.
To the cheers of TAFE supporters he pledged a Labor Government will save the vocational training institution – now suffering under a savage ideological assault by the Berejiklian-Barilaro government.
Mr. Foley is spending the next week in the Schools and Hospitals Before Stadiums bus touring the state to oppose the Government's $2.7 billion stadium splurge.
"It is an indictment on this Government that the foundations of public education in this state come second to an ideological crusade.
"This is a Government more interested in vanity spending on stadiums than the education of young people in our community trying to learn and make a living.
"Enrolments at TAFE are in free-fall and this Government is squarely to blame. Spending $2.7 billion on stadiums has a real cost - you can see it on the faces of TAFE staff and young people trying to find a job."
"Business and industry in many sectors desperately needs trained and skilled staff but it can't get them this way.


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Home MMA News 'The Black Beast' Reacts To Cody Garbrandt's Controversial Tweets
'The Black Beast' Reacts To Cody Garbrandt's Controversial Tweets
Tom Niston
Yesterday, the MMA world was beset by controversy stemming from some old tweets sent by former UFC bantamweight champion Cody Garbrandt.
Set to face longtime rival TJ Dillashaw in the main event of tomorrow night's (Sat., August 4, 2018) UFC 227 from the Staples Center in Los Angeles, California, the last thing "No Love" needed was a distraction following his second-round knockout loss to "The Viper" in their first match-up at last November's UFC 217.
It surfaced, however, when some tweets from 2012-2013 showing Garbrandt using some allegedly racist language were posted for all to see. The knockout slugger was quiet at first in his reactions, but then came out with a full explanation about it before abruptly ending the interview.
"No Love" is understandably looking to focus on his title fight this weekend, but many are still knocking him for the controversial posts. With heat on his back for supposedly being a racist, one of the UFC's most outspoken African-American fighters actually came to his defense. Check out what Derrick 'The Black Beast' Lewis had to say about the tweets:
It's all good @Cody_Nolove you still invited to the cookout
— Derrick Lewis (@Thebeast_ufc) August 2, 2018
Lewis is forgiving of the Team Alpha Male fighter, but many on social media are not as understanding.
Who do you side with – Lewis, or those who insist Garbrandt should be judged on his tweets from five years ago?
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Boston-born and a huge combat sports fan for life, Tom loves to write about all the most buzz worthy and attention-grabbing headlines in MMA.


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This Way Out Radio Episode #1707 December 14, 2020 "Olivia on the Record!"
This Way Out Radio · Olivia on the Record
Insider Ginny Z. Berson and the record label's official historian Dr. Bonnie Morris discuss the story of "Olivia on the Record: A Radical Experiment in Women's Music" — with some favorite songs, of course!
Bhutan decriminalizes same-gender sex, Singapore gay activist renews sex law challenge, Bolivia creates "free unions" for queer couples, Tlaxcala joins Mexico's marriage equality states, U.S. courts affirm trans rights in Oregon and Nevada, Drag Queen Story-timers sue Australia's head homophobe for defamation, and more international LGBTQ news!
Complete Program Summary and NewsWrap Transcript for the week of December 14, 2020
Olivia on the Record!
NewsWrap (full transcript below): The tiny Asian Kingdom of Bhutan becomes the latest country on the planet to decriminalize same-gender sex … a veteran Singapore gay activist files yet another lawsuit challenging the city-state's anti-queer sodomy laws … Bolivian officials create "free unions" for queer couples hoping they will satisfy the January 2018 marriage equality order by the Inter-American Court of Human Rights … Tlaxcala lawmakers make it the latest Mexican marriage equality state … the U.S. Supreme Court refuses to hear the appeal of lower court rulings that supported an Oregon school district's policy to allow its trans students to use the campus bathrooms and locker rooms that match their preferred gender … a U.S. federal judge sides with a trans-man, and rebukes the State Department, for telling him that he would need a note from a doctor certifying his transition before they'd allow a "male" designation on his passport … and two Brisbane "Drag Queen Story Time" participants sue Lyle Shelton, one of Australia's loudest anti-queer voices, for defamation after he said their being around children was "dangerous" (written by GREG GORDON, edited by LUCIA CHAPPELLE, reported this week by MELANIE KELLER and MICHAEL LEBEAU, produced by BRIAN DESHAZOR).
Feature: From The Furies Collective's publication of one of the world's first lesbian feminist newspapers to the explosion of women's media in the 70s and 80s, Ginny Z. Berson has been a visionary pioneer. Her new memoir about that historic era is called Olivia on the Record: A Radical Experiment in Women's Music. Producer BRIAN DESHAZOR arranged a conversation between Berson and Olivia Records' official archivist DR. BONNIE MORRIS. This Way Out's PAULA THOMAS narrates (recorded by REBECCA DRAPKIN, with music by TERESA TRULL, MEG CHRISTIAN, CRIS WILLIAMSON, BE BE K'ROCHE, and GWEN AVERY; and a brief TWO year-end campaign promo produced by LUCIA CHAPPELLE at about 10 minutes in).
for the week ending December 12, 2020
Written by Greg Gordon, edited by Lucia Chappelle,reported this week by Melanie Keller and Michael LeBeauproduced by Brian DeShazor
The Kingdom of Bhutan is the latest country on the planet to decriminalize same-gender sex. The criminal code had punished "sodomy or any other sexual conduct that is against the order of nature" with up to a year in prison. According to Pink News, there have been no known prosecutions under those laws.
A December 10th joint meeting of the lower National Assembly and upper National Council voted to repeal those provisions. None of the 63 members opposed, and six abstained.
The changes await the formal approval of Bhutan's King Jigme Khesar Namgyel Wangchuck.
Finance Minister Namgay Tshering was among the government leaders to support repeal, he said, "to keep up with the times."
Bhutan's mostly invisible, fledgling LGBTQ rights movement lobbied for more than a year for passage of the sex law reform. Tashi Tsheten of the queer advocacy group Rainbow Bhutan told Reuters that, "the bill being passed on Human Rights Day itself is a momentous day for everyone in Bhutan."
Dwarfed by its neighbors China and India, the tiny mostly-Buddhist Himalayan nation is home to about 800,000 people.
Veteran gay activist Roy Tan is challenging Singapore's Section 377A — again. That Penal Code provision criminalizes consensual adult same-gender sex. Offenders are punished with up to two years in prison. The sixty-two-year-old retired doctor also known as Tan Seng Kee was part of an earlier challenge that focused on constitutional rights. The High Court rejected that effort, which is being challenged in the Court of Appeal.
Tan's current petition to the High Court argues that enforcement of the statute has been rare and sometimes arbitrary. He claims that inconsistencies in enforcement of the law require its repeal – an approach he says has rarely been tried before.
Well-known human rights activist M. Ravi is Tan's attorney. Ravi called the inconsistent enforcement of the Asian city-state's law "problematic … [The government] has already acknowledged that 377A should not be proactively enforced because it is deemed discriminatory. We know that they cannot go back. The only way is to repeal 377A completely."
Tan says he expects the High Court to hear his new lawsuit in about ten months, but he'll withdraw it if his prior challenge at the Court of Appeal is successful.
Bolivia is the latest member of the Organization of American States to give some form of legal recognition to same-gender couples.
According to the news site opinion.com.bo, the December 9th move creates "free unions" for lesbian and gay couples. The action is intended to bring the country into compliance with a January 2018 ruling by the organization's judicial branch, the Inter-American Court of Human Rights. That decision required all member nations that had not already done so to open civil marriage to same-gender couples. While it's not called "marriage," "free unions" reportedly provide those couples with all the rights and privileges of civil marriage, and officials believe it satisfies the Inter-American Court ruling.
The legal battle for equality was launched in October 2018 by business administrator David Víctor Aruquipa Pérez and lawyer Guido Álvaro Montaño Durán. Now in their mid-40s, David and Guido have been together since 2008. A Civic Registry resolution named them the first same-gender couple "to have the registration of the Free Union."
Lawyers from the Rights In Action Collective celebrated the couple on Twitter, saying that "it has been an honor to represent them #LoveisLove."
Marriage equality has come to yet another state in Mexico. The news site lapoliticaonline.com reported that the Congress in the state of Tlaxcala approved a bill opening the civil institution to same-gender couples on December 8th. The vote was 16 in favor and three against.
A two-hour debate preceded the vote to amend several articles of the Civil Code. The wording of the rationale for the reforms is rather unique: to "guarantee equality and eradicate discrimination by recognizing marriage as the union between two people [who] are not necessarily male and female."
Opposition lawmakers objected to the measure. They claimed that it contravened "the essence of the core of society: the family." Apparently the millions of queer families around the world escaped their radar – families with and without children.
Even though a ruling by Mexico's highest court said that same-gender couples should be able to legally marry, the 31 states each had to figure out how to get there. The federal capital of Mexico City is its own jurisdiction, and opened civil marriage to gay and lesbian couples first. Nineteen states have since followed that lead, either through legislation, judicial decisions, or by administrative actions.
Transgender people won two cases in U.S. federal courts this week. The Supreme Court refused to consider an appeal of lower court rulings that affirmed an Oregon school district's policy allowing trans students to use gender-appropriate campus facilities.
The plaintiff parents argued that trans students should be forced to use facilities based on their assigned gender at birth. Their offensive reasoning was that other students "reported embarrassment, humiliation, anxiety, intimidation, fear, apprehension, and stress produced by having to use these privacy facilities with a classmate of the opposite sex."
The case was a reaction to what happened in Dallas, Oregon, a predominantly agricultural town about 15 miles west of Salem. Dallas High School student Elliot Yoder came out as trans in 2015, and complained that he was being forced to use the wrong bathrooms and locker rooms on campus. District officials responded by simply issuing a policy to allow trans students to use the facility in which they are most comfortable.
The ACLU's Deputy Director for Trans Justice Chase Strangio applauded the high court's refusal to hear the appeal. He said that it had "once again said that transgender youth are not a threat to other students."
Similar lawsuits have failed in other parts of the country — some of them cited freedom of religion. The Supreme Court declined to hear one appeal from Pennsylvania last year.
A U.S. federal judge ruled this week that the U.S. State Department should not have required a Nevada trans man to provide a doctor's note before it would issue a passport to him with a male gender marker. Oliver Bruce Morris simply wanted a second form of ID to complement his driver's license. The Nevada Department of Motor Vehicles identifies him as male, but the State Department demanded certification of his "completed" gender transition.
Federal District Court Judge Gloria M. Navarro called the State Department's "doctor's note" requirement an unconstitutional violation of Morris' Fifth Amendment rights to equal protection. She admonished the Department, writing that it "has provided no explanation, let alone any evidence, of why [it] has an important interest in verifying a transgender passport applicant's gender identity." Navarro also noted that, "Not all transgender persons receive or require physician treatment."
When he filed the lawsuit in 2019, twenty-five-year-old Morris told the Las Vegas Review-Journal that, "maybe my family will see it and have a better understanding and see how personal this all is for me. That I'm a person. That I'm a human. That I'm myself. That I'm Oliver."
Finally, two "Drag Queen Story Time" participants in Brisbane, Australia are suing the former leader of the Australian Christian Lobby for defamation. Johnny Valkyrie performs as "Queenie," and Dwayne Hill is "Diamond" at "Story Time" events and "Diamond Good-Rim" in adult appearances. Both hold valid Working with Children clearances.
A known anti-queer activist committed suicide following a small protest of a "Story Time" hosted by the Brisbane City Council Library. Former Australian Christian Lobby leader and leading national homophobe Lyle Shelton took advantage of the situation. Shelton called the popular drag-queens-reading-to-kids event the equivalent of harboring sexual predators and pedophiles. Shelton asked his followers, "Have we learned nothing from creeps like Harvey Weinstein, Jeffrey Epstein and Prince Andrew?" In blog posts, Shelton claimed that the events are "dangerous" and that, "drag queens and what they represent are not for kids … and they should not be provided a place in front of children in public libraries."
Drag queens Valkyrie and Hill are charging in their lawsuit that Shelton's statements "incite hatred towards, serious contempt for, or serious ridicule of the complainants." Valkyrie is also trans, and Shelton specifically claims that that makes him especially dangerous.
The drag-duo is suing Shelton for $10,000 in damages and a public apology. Shelton claims that "Drag Queen Story Time" is an effort to "indoctrinate children", and that the lawsuit is simply "a demand for [him] to be gagged."© 2020 Overnight Productions (Inc.)


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Sanjin Pejković holds a PhD in Film Studies from Lund university. His research touches upon film cultures in the area that once constituted former Yugoslavia. Pejković writes mainly for Swedish film and culture magazines, but also for various international film magazines and film scholarly journals. He cooperates with several film festivals in Scandinavia and the Balkans.
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In Baltimore's forgotten Chinatown, a new festival will celebrate Asian-American history and culture
By Wesley Case
Sep 21, 2018 | 5:00 AM
A new dragon mural, in honor of Saturday's Charm City Night Market, is displayed on Park Avenue in downtown's Chinatown area. (Courtesy of Downtown Partnership)
A once-bustling section of downtown will come alive again Saturday with the Charm City Night Market, a block party celebrating Asian-American and Pacific Islander culture in Baltimore.
That's the hope, at least, of the Chinatown Collective, a volunteer-run organization of young Baltimoreans that created the first-ever event. Located in the city's historic Chinatown along Park Avenue downtown, the festival aims to remind attendees of Baltimore's Asian history and culture while showcasing the work of restaurateurs, artists and vendors, said organizer Marisa Dobson.
"The goal is to bring people around a space and a neighborhood that I feel has been somewhat neglected and forgotten," Dobson said, "and make it feel alive."
Scheduled to take place 4 p.m. to 11 p.m. in the 200 block of Park Ave., the Night Market will feature live performances, both traditional (Samulnori, a group of Korean drum players) and contemporary (the Baltimore Dance Crews Project, a duo of Filipino-American hip-hop dancers, and headlining singer/songwriter Grayson Moon). Local food and drink vendors such as Ekiben and Dooby's will be on hand, too, as will visual artists, jewelry makers and more.
Coinciding with the Lunar Mid-Autumn Festival, the Night Market was inspired by popular street markets in Asian cities such as Hong Kong and Shanghai, where visitors stroll, taking in the sights, sounds and foods, Dobson said.
The larger point is to present a minority segment of Baltimore's population with nuance and pride, Dobson said.
"It does all of us a disservice not to provide space for other expressions of cultural identity," said Dobson, who is part Japanese.
The Night Market's concept began with a meeting between Stephanie Hsu of the Chinatown Collective and Katherine Chin, a 90-year-old Timonium resident who spent most of her adult life in Baltimore's Chinatown.
Born in Washington, Chin moved here in the late 1950s, and went on to teach Chinese cooking classes inside the Chinatown grocery store she owned with her late husband, Calvin Chin. The neighborhood was vibrant then, with restaurants, shops and the offices of the Chinese Merchants Association, she said.
A 1968 funeral procession stops in front of the Chinese Merchants Association building. (Baltimore Sun)
A decade later, though, many Asian-American families started to move to the suburbs, in part because of rising tensions during the civil rights movement, said Chin, who cited the city's 1968 riot in response to Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.'s assassination as a turning point. But the Chins stayed, and in the '80s, they hoped to revitalize and rebrand Chinatown as Asiantown, an inclusive area for residents of all Asian backgrounds, she said. They envisioned a museum, medical center and a colorful pagoda on Park Avenue that would serve as a neighborhood entrance.
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For the Chins, the ambitious idea was a way to bring visibility to a population they felt was often overlooked.
"Because in Baltimore City, there's so many different diverse communities — where are we? Nobody knows where we are," Chin said. "My husband always said, 'We have to be recognized, too.' "
The Chin family's dream to revitalize Chinatown resonated with Hsu. She began gathering friends monthly to discuss goals and ideas, including the Night Market. Now, the Collective has eight members — all in their 20s or 30s — of Taiwanese, Chinese, Korean, Filipino, Thai and Vietnamese descent.
This generation's desire to connect to the past doesn't surprise Karthick Ramakrishnan, University of California, Riverside professor and director of the National Asian American Survey.
In recent years, as Asian-Americans have entered adulthood, they've shed an "ambivalent sense of identity during adolescence," he said. This "more stable sense of self that appreciates aspects of their parents' generation" mixes with American mores to create a point of view informed by both sensibilities, he said, as seen in the Chinatown Collective's efforts.
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This hybrid of cultural expression has become more visible in U.S. cities as millennials choose to live in high-density areas rather than the suburbs, he said.
"It's not just about being a bridge between the old and the new, or the parents' generation and American culture, but the creation of new kinds of culture," Ramakrishan said. "That's where you see a lot of excitement."
From 2000 to 2010, more Asian-Americans moved to Baltimore's downtown than any other ethnicity — up nearly 350 percent from the previous survey, according to U.S. Census data. (Just outside of Baltimore, strong Asian communities have emerged too, such as in Ellicott City, where dozens of Korean-owned businesses have opened over the past decade on a stretch of Route 40, designated "Korean Way" by state officials.)
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Downtown Baltimore, which includes Chinatown, had approximately 1,300 total residents in 2000 and 3,700 in 2010, said Kirby Fowler, president of Downtown Partnership, a sponsor of the Night Market. He estimates at least 7,000 living there now.
"This is the fastest-growing neighborhood in the entire city," Fowler said.
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Fowler hopes attendees take notice of the neighborhood and consider its potential for businesses and other uses. Some of the properties where the festival will be held are owned by the city, and incentive programs are available for qualifying business owners, he said.
"Perhaps we can return to that historic Chinatown that we had in the last century," Fowler said. "But this is a first step, and we're hoping it'll be successful."
Mayor Catherine Pugh said in an email she applauded the Chinatown Collective for putting together Saturday's event.
"This celebration of music, food, art and culture is an ideal way to bring people together in one of the most historic corridors of Baltimore," Pugh said.
The timing for the Night Market feels right to Phil Han, too, owner of the Mount Vernon restaurant Dooby's. These days, some of the country's most celebrated fine dining restaurants are Asian, the 32-year-old Korean-American said, and consumers of all backgrounds are more willing to engage with ethnic foods and drinks, such as the soju-based cocktail he'll serve at the Night Market.
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"If you tried to do this five or 10 years ago, it wouldn't be so easily accepted," Han said. "But I think now you have this younger, millennial audience that's maybe traveled, or gotten more exposure to the world … and I think it's great they're certainly more curious about things than ever before."
Factor in the smash success of the movie "Crazy Rich Asians" this summer, and it feels like the Asian-American and Pacific Islander community is having a moment, Dobson said. And as U.S. citizens increasingly embrace their cultural identities, there couldn't be a better time for this wide-ranging community to come together, she said.
"I think Asian-American people might be waking up a little bit to their political power, and to the fact they need to be good allies and activists," Dobson said.
Despite palpable momentum, Baltimore — whose Chinatown pales in comparison to those of New York, Philadelphia and Washington — has plenty of room for growth in promoting Asian culture and traditions, Han said.
It has to come from "more than just the events — it's about education and exposure," Han said.
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So the Night Market will showcase more than just food and dance. There will be illustrations by artist Derrick Quevedo on display, along with works inspired by the Filipinx-American experience by Timpla, the sister duo of Katrina and Kristina Villavicencio. Soy candles made by Elizabeth Hecht's EKOH company and wellness goods by Priya Means Love will be for sale.
"In the first year, we're not really sure who's going to show up, so it goes back to inclusivity as our guiding light," Dobson said. "We wanted lots of different entry points."
If things go well, the Night Market will become the Chinatown Collective's premier annual event, with smaller gatherings scheduled throughout the year, Dobson said.
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The team behind Ekiben, the Asian fusion restaurant in Fells Point, will be on hand, selling sandwiches and making sure the event's food program runs smoothly, said co-owner Steve Chu. He said festivals like the Night Market are much needed in the city.
"Hopefully it's a very educational and eye-opening experience for people in Baltimore," Chu said. "I'm sure it's going to be like something they've never seen."
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Villalba, Puerto Rico
The municipality of Villalba is known as the «City of Advances,» the «City of Lakes,» the «City of Cooperatives» and the «City of Pigeon Peas.» Its residents are called Villalbeños. The patron saint is Nuestra Señora del Carmen. Some say that the name of the municipality comes from a visit by the Duke of Alba. The residents later decided to name the town Villa-Alba. Others say the name comes from a Galician family believed to have lived in the region.
The territory of Villalba covers 37 square miles. The municipality has 27,913 residents (2000 census). The municipality is divided into the sectors of: Villalba Pueblo, Caonillas Abajo, Caonillas Arriba, Hato Puerco Abajo, Hato Puerco Arriba, Vacas, Villalba Abajo and Villalba Arriba.
Planting and harvesting pigeon peas are part of the economy of the municipality. The crop is processed and canned in a plant in Villalba. The municipality also has various factories producing machinery and electronic equipment, as well as food products and aluminum containers.
Villalba is bordered on the north by the municipality of Orocovis, on the east by Coamo, and on the south and west by Juana Díaz. Geographically, Villalba is part of the sub-region known as the southern hills. It is located south of the central mountain range in the rainy part of the semi-arid foothills. Higher elevations in the municipality are La Corona and La Montería peaks. The latter rises to 1,574 feet (479.74 meters).
The hydrological system of Villalba consists of the Jacaguas River, the Toa Vacas River, and the Achiote, Cuesta Pasto, Meolaya, De los Güiros and Jagüeyes streams. The Jacaguas River forms between the sectors of Hato Puerco Arriba and Vacas. It extends for 36 kilometers (22.5 miles) before emptying into the Caribbean Sea. The Toa Vacas River, a tributary of the Jacaguas, is fed by La Cotorra, Limón and Grande streams. Villalba also has the Toa Vacas and Guayabal reservoirs. Toa Vacas was built in the watershed of the Jacaguas River. Its original capacity was approximately 69 million cubic meters.
The municipality is also the site of Indian Cave. This cave is deep, dark and wet. Archaeologists studied the site in the 1970s when the Guaynía Archaeology and History Society of Ponce located, inventoried and studied two caves in the Hacienda El Limón.area of the Caonillas Arriba sector.
Villalba was a sector of Ponce. It was separated from that municipality and annexed to Juana Díaz in 1823. Later, in the middle of the 19th century, the area was divided into Villalba Abajo and Villalba Arriba. At that time, the area depended on growing sugar cane and fruit.
In 1917, the sectors of Hato Puerco Arriba, Hato Puerco Abajo, Caonillas Arriba, Caonillas Abajo, Villalba Arriba and Villalba Abajo were separated from Juana Díaz and an autonomous community was formed with the official name of Villalba.
During the early decades of the 20th century, a United States legislator, Walter McJones, organized residents of Villalba to create an independent municipality. The effort became reality with Law No. 42 of April 12, 1917, approved by the Puerto Rico legislative assembly, which created the new municipal entity with the name Villalba. At that time, Villalba consisted of the sectors of Caonillas Abajo, Caonillas Arriba, Hato Puerco Abajo, Hato Puerco Arriba, Villalba Abajo and Villalba Arriba, and was separated from Juana Díaz.
Others say the separation of Villalba from Juana Díaz was begun in 1916 by José Víctor Figueroa, who was a delegate to the House from the Ponce district from 1914 to 1917 and was a representative from 1917 to 1924. Historians agree that the founders of Villalba were José Ramón Figueroa and Walter McJones.
In 1875, Pope Leo XIII granted permission for the construction of a church to be called the Virgen del Carmen Parish, in honor of Carmen Reyes de Figueroa.
In 1940, Villalba still had a small sugar mill. During the 1970s, it relied on the cultivation of pigeon peas and coffee. At that time, some 3,500 cuerdas of land were devoted to growing pigeon peas and there were two coffee farms: El Limón and El Semil.
The municipality is known as the City of Advances because the first hydroelectric plant in Puerto Rico was built there in 1929. This event made Villalba the first town on the island to have electricity. Today, the plant is called Toro Negro and generates electricity for all of Puerto Rico.
The flag of Villalba carries a design similar to that of the municipal coat of arms, with the difference that the metallic colors of gold and silver are substituted with the colors of yellow and white, respectively. It consists of four horizontal bands of unequal width, with the following colors from top to bottom: green, off-white, green, yellow. On the side of the flag toward the pole, in the upper band, is the bright star from the coat of arms, in white.
The coat of arms consists of an image of a Puerto Rican village from the 19th century, with six houses and a silver-colored church. The church bears a symbol of the Carmelite order and above to its right is a silver-colored shining star. At the top is a crowned wall with three towers. The town is represented by the buildings and the morning star. The Carmelite emblem alludes to the patron saint, Nuestra Señora del Carmen. The other symbols refer to the surname Figueroa, reminiscent of the embroidery of the founder, José Ramón Figueroa. The crowned wall is distinctive of municipalities. Under the seal is a ribbon with the inscription Villalba.
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• Doña Juana Waterfall
• Lake Guayabal
• Lake Toa Vacas
• Toro Negro Forest Preserve
Doel López – poet and historian
Carlos Mercado – poet
Virgilio Negrón – poet
Daniel Serrano – poet
Moisés Aponte – painter
Maximino Miranda Jiménez – senator
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Areyto Festival – November
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I hate to be the harbinger of bad news, but in case you have not noticed, in a few short weeks Christmas will be upon us.
I have a number of people overseas to send cards to, so I thought that I had better start making them. I had a quick play this morning, and came up with a couple of cards, well one design in a couple of colour options. They are incredibly quick to make.
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The second card is Pink Pirouette and Rich Razzleberry card.
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Best known for his seminal Birds of America, Audubon's prints are among the world's most recognized images.
JOHN JAMES AUDUBON. Print. Ruff-Necked Hummingbird, [1871].
The Birds of America octavo edition was published in 6½ x 10 in. (approximate size) volumes, depending upon the publisher's binding. The first octavo edition, in seven volumes, sometimes referred to as the "royal octavo folio" or the "royal octavo edition" was published jointly by John James Audubon in New York and J.B. Chevalier in Philadelphia (1840-1844). Seven editions published between 1856 and 1871 followed, with increasing attention to background coloring. The octavos were referred to by Audubon as the "petit edition" and "The Birds in Miniature."
In 1858, the U.S. Government ordered 200 sets, which were given to foreign governments as a thank you for important gifts given to America.
Total number of color plates in the octavo editions: 500. Printing method: Black and white lithography, watercolored by hand. The process was also called planeography. Lithographer: John T. Bowen, Philadelphia.
Unlike the elephant folio editions, Audubon included texts in these smaller editions, similar to the textual content of his earlier Ornithological Biography reference work. By this time, however he had produced more research and had added new species (500 bird plates, rather than only 435 for his "elephant" folio). The octavo editions are not an exact replica of the elephant folio plates. While more than one species is shown on some of the plates in the elephant edition, only one species appears on each plate in the octavo editions. Often, the backgrounds were simplified. As well, new species of birds and new plants appeared in the octavo editions, and the birds are grouped in an orderly scientific manner (the elephant folio edition was unorganized, in comparison).
Most subscribers bound their complete 500 plates and text in seven volumes. The first (royal) octavo edition prints do not have the lithographic backgrounds for the color tint on the same plates in the subsequent octavo editions. Except for this background change, all the octavo editions are the same. All the octavo editions are rare and desirable, and color plates still in good condition are hard to find. Many bird lovers seek individual species to mount and frame, created specific scarcities and driving up prices for selected prints.


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De helling wordt opgenomen in de Peter Van Petegem Classic, genoemd naar de wielrenner Peter Van Petegem.

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Published: May 24, 2016, 5:57 pm
Downtown Salem going through changes for community
SALEM (WSLS 10) - A lot of changes are happening in Salem as part of a downtown plan.
Several businesses are expanding or moving. All Sports Cafe is moving across the street and doubling in size.
"We've just outgrown the space and business has been growing really fast the past three to four years," said Jeremiah Gray, the general manager of the restaurant.
Other businesses are making changes too.
Countryside Classics is moving and O'Brien Meats just finished its expansion.
The downtown plan is part of a community-driven effort to define Salem's future and started two years ago this fall.
The city received 3,400 comments about downtown Salem and businesses got a better idea of what people wanted.
"I think Salem has a great downtown and downtown creates Salem's identity and this is about having the kind of downtown Salem deserves," said Salem City Planner Benjamin Tripp.
The city of Salem received grants to help pay for a majority of improvements.
The next step in the plan is engineering and the city will be looking at street scape, utilities, and greenery.
Most of that construction will happen in a year.


21 March – Pictures of protest in the front of the Russian embassy in London …against Russian court verdict which charged Nadiya Savchenko – charged over the death of two Russian journalists.
23 February 2016 – it happened… This morning I've noticed that 4 pictures have been stolen from my outside gallery. As once someone said: "that's good if your work someone copies or tries to steal…" Funny thing 😉 18 February – Preparation for and exhibition First attempts with the layout. Difficult thing to put material in proper order from visual point of view.
August 2015 – My 40's! It happened – I'm 40 and I like it. My girlfriend Marlena gave a balloon trip which was very nice! More pictures you can find in Events section.


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MIKE WILTON:
Best known as the guitarist and frontman of The Standard Lamps, Mike is now producing and performing his solo material at venues around the UK. With major support slots, supporting both The Who on their 2014 and 2017 UK tours, and The Bluetones on their 2015 and 2016 comeback tours, The Lamps built up a strong following around the UK; with audiences relishing their authentic take on classic 60s/70s British rock music, energetic performances and easy going demeanour on stage. Mike's first solo album, 'Imaginary Friend', which was released in May 2018. He is currently getting ready to record his second solo album, which he hopes to release next year.
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Ralph McTell - Singer, songwriter and acoustic guitar player Ralph McTell has been an influential figure on the UK music scene since the late 60s. He made his debut in 1968 with the album 'Eight Frames a Second' and in 1974 the release of 'Streets of London' earned him an Ivor Novello Award. The song 'Streets of London' has been covered by over two hundred artists around the world. He modelled his guitar playing on the style of US country blues guitar players of the early 20th century, including Blind Blake, Robert Johnson and Blind Willie McTell. It was these influences led a friend to suggest that he change his professional name to McTell as his career was beginning to take shape. In 2002 he was presented with the prestigious Lifetime Achievement Award at the BBC Radio 2 Folk Awards. Learn more about Ralph at
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Shawn Colvin - Since the release of her debut album in 1989, Shawn Colvin has won three Grammy Awards, released twelve albums, written a critically acclaimed memoir, maintained a non-stop national and international touring schedule until the recent pandemic, appeared on countless television and radio programs, had her songs featured in major motion pictures and created a remarkable canon of work. Her most popular song undoubtedly is the 1997 Grammy Award-winner, "Sunny Came Home." In September 2019, to commemorate the 30th anniversary of the release of her debut album, Steady On, Shawn released a special, newly-recorded all acoustic version of the landmark album. Learn more about Shawn at
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